Management for neonatal survival at the limits of viability

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 43-70+72

  McElrath, Thomas F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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